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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Melnik When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Melnik
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
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-- Groucho Marx Melnik We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Melnik
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Melnik When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Melnik
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Melnik Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Melnik
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Melnik Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Melnik
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Melnik Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Melnik
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Melnik blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Melnik
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Melnik Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Melnik
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Melnik blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Melnik
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Melnik Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Melnik
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Melnik Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Melnik
